Task: Mobility and Location-based Informatics
Research Method: Storyboarding and Video Simulation
Subject: Locative Storage and Retrieval
Locative Media examples:
Murmur
Yellow Arrows
Grafedia
Christian Nold
Justice Mapping Center
Teri Rueb
Proboscis
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Task:
Create a video prototype for a new mobile device (or a new application for an existing device) that facilitates the storage and retrieval of digital information according to geo-spatial location (GPS).
•The task should require a user's presence at a particular location to store or retrieve the data.
•The information can take any form, but only one form – either images, text, video, or sound.
•Your audience/user-group should be some subset of the University population – student, staff, faculty
Design Goal:
Your chief goal is to identify a new problem to solve that has not been approached before. This goal may have as wide or narrow an appeal as you wish, but decide with your team why this problem is worth solving, and for whom.
Formal Considerations:
•Will the acts of storage and retrieval be voluntary or involuntary?
•Can items be stored and retrieved by just anyone?
•Will personal identity be stored along with items? Or will items be stored and retrieved anonymously?
•Is your design intended for routine use, or one-time, ephemeral use?
•How much time will pass between storage and retrieval?
•Will items expire, or be always accessible?
•Will the act of storing or retrieving be obvious to others watching?
•What will be the nature of the relationship between storer and retriever? Are they the same person, strangers, friends?
•Is your device intended to be used alone, or in groups?
•How legible will geo-spatial location be in your project? Will the user at either end be expected to pay active attention to her geo-spatial location?
•Will you approach geo-spatial location as an absolute or relative grid?
Design Process:
Stage One: due in class April 14
1- Questionnaire:
-What new problem will you be trying to solve?
-Why is this interesting or valuable as a problem?
-Who is your audience?
-What form of information will you be storing, retrieving, and why this form?
-Answer at least four of the Formal Considerations questions above
2- Design (at least three) personas and scenarios
Stage Two: due in class April 21
3- Discuss and evaluate
4- Storyboard for content
5- Discuss and evaluate
6- Storyboard for form, as needed
Stage Three: rough cuts due in class April 28
7- Shoot and Edit!
Stage Four: crits on May 5
8- Discuss and evaluate